Ray Kurzweil has left a mark on our lives. The 76-year-old computer scientist, author, inventor and futurist is responsible for advances in technologies we take for granted: optical character ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “The singularity,” the moment where AI is no longer under human control, is less than a decade ...

If you’ve spent any time on Facebook recently, then you may well have seen a glimpse of the future of the internet: rows and rows of AI generated posts depicting ...

On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson's disease at age 79 on March 20, ...

I have long flirted with the idea that I’m an audiophile, though I don’t typically spend thousands of dollars on either headphones or speakers, and I only sporadically indulge in lossless audio. True ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Over the past few weeks, I traveled through Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, experiencing firsthand the energy and transformation ...

I always thought "the singularity" was a wonderful sci-fi concept to explore, but hardly a likely outcome, let alone inevitable. I mean, in physics we really try to avoid or resolve singularities, ...

AI may soon become so smart that it can improve itself. While this might sound like science fiction or something that could happen a decade from now, an experimental project by an OpenAI co-founder ...

Amir Hayeri, CEO of Bio Conscious Tech, works with chronically ill patients to help them predict and ideally avoid disease complications. Many companies are rolling out new artificial intelligence (AI ...

The gap between where we are and where we need to be for any sort of technology 'singularity' to occur is huge -- and the measures futurologists point to don't actually seem to address the problem.